Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
کیرا گانت: چطور طناب بازی ریتم خود را پیدا کرد
A member of the inaugural TED Fellows class, Dr. Kyra Gaunt is an ethnomusicologist, singer-songwriter, and a social media researcher on faculty at University at Albany, SUNY. Full bio
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TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.
تیک-تت، تیک-تت، تیک-تت.
the Jump Rope]
a clothesline, twine.
بند رخت یا ریسمان باشد.
is that it has a certain weight,
that kind of whip sound.
of the jump rope is.
that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,
شروع شده، به فینیسیا رفته،
to North America with Dutch settlers.
به آمریکای شمالی رسیده.
when women's clothes became more fitted
که لباسهای زنانه تنگتر شدند
wouldn't catch the ropes.
to train their wards to jump rope.
به بچههای زیردستشان استفاده میکردند.
in the antebellum South
در جنوب پیش از جنگ داخلی
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,
برانکس، بروکلین، کویینز،
lots of girls playing with ropes.
میدیدید که طناب بازی میکردند.
and turn them as a single rope together,
و مثل یک طناب با هم بتابانند،
them in like an eggbeater on each other.
و مثل تخممرغ همزن روی هم تاباند.
was like a steady timeline --
یک زمانبندی ثابت داشت --
and rhythms and chants.
و ضرب و شعر اضافه کرد.
to contribute to something
than the neighborhood.
a powerful symbol of culture and identity
نمادی قدرتمند از فرهنگ و هویت
بازیهای ورزشی بکنند.
basketball and football,
و فوتبال بازی میکردند،
اما در آن دوره،
that boys weren't a part of that.
جایی تحت سیطره دخترها بود.
که برای پسرها هم بود،
so many hip-hop artists
که خیلی از هنرمندان هیپ-هاپ
in black girls' game songs.
میشنیدند نمونه برداری کردهاند.
act like you know how to flip,
act like you know how to flip,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
french fries, ice cold, thick shake,
became a Grammy Award-winning single
برنده جایزه تک آهنگ گرمی شد
your street in a Range Rover ... "
your street in a Range Rover ...»
down down the roller coaster,
down down the roller coaster,
in any black urban community
سیاه پوست بزرگ شده بودند
helped maintain these songs
به باقی ماندن این آهنگها
and the gestures that go along with it,
که با آنها میآمدند کمک کرد،
to what I call "kinetic orality" --
«محرکه بیانی» مینامم طبیعی است --
passed down over generations.
دست به دست میشود.
is the thing that helps carry it.
که به حمل آن کمک میکند.
to carry memory through.
تا با آن خاطره را حمل کنید.
for all different kinds of things.
برای هر کاری مورد استفاده قرار بگیرد.
because people need to move.
چون مردم به حرکت نیاز دارند.
can make the most creative uses.
گاهی خلاقانهترین استفاده را داشته باشند.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kyra Gaunt - EthnomusicologistA member of the inaugural TED Fellows class, Dr. Kyra Gaunt is an ethnomusicologist, singer-songwriter, and a social media researcher on faculty at University at Albany, SUNY.
Why you should listen
Kyra Gaunt's book, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop, published by NYU Press, won of the 2007 Alan Merriam Book Prize awarded by The Society for Ethnomusicology, which contributed to the emergence of black girlhood studies and hip-hop feminism. It also inspired a work by fellow TED Fellow Camille A. Brown, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, which was nominated for a 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production.
Gaunt's articles have appeared in Musical Quarterly, The Journal for Popular Music Studies and Parcours anthropologiques, and she has contributed chapters to I Was Born to Use Mics: Listening to Nas’ Illmatic and The Hip-hop & Obama Reader, among other publications.
Gaunt's scholarship has been funded by The Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a nationally- and internationally-recognized speaker. She also is a certified expert witness in federal and state cases on the unintended consequences of social media. She also continues to perform and record as a classically-trained, jazz vocalist and R&B singer-songwriter. Her original compositions are available on the CD Be the True Revolution available on iTunes and CDBaby.
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